across the city. all right, everybody. have a great afternoon. "cbs evening news" is ♪ ♪ >> norah: tonight, another mass shooting, this time on the campus of michigan state beer with search tonight for motive and the note found in the gunman's topic. nere are tonight's top headlin s the the moments for tens of thousands. >> concerning what they were going to do with they barricade themselves in. >> my phone then. wall, and we have a presence of united states not saying anything. >> norah: we are in syria tonight, the war-torn country in dire need of help after that deadly earthquake. >> so little eight has come here to northern syria. and people are desperate.

>> norah: russia ramps up attacks on ukraine. >> this is the last ukrainian-held village before the russian front line, about 3 miles in that direction. ♪ ♪ >> former south carolina governor and u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley is running for president. >> she becomes the first major challenger to former president donald trump. >> norah: and remember that $2 billion powerball jackpot? today, the lucky winner rev revealed. >> edwin castro. [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ >> norah: good evening and thank you for joining us on this tuesday night. had come of the new report that inflation is cooling but still too high. tonight, we take a look at what it means for you and the rising cost of car insurance nationwide. in tonight's money watch, we look at how you can save on your bill appear also on this valentine's day, we've got the e

story. two patients whose hearts literally brought them together. but first, we are learning more about the young lives cut short in that deadly mass shooting at michigan state university. they all went to high school in the detroit suburbs. sophomore brian fraser was president of his fraternity. junior alexandria verner was studying biology, and junior arielle anderson wanted to become the first doctor in her family. sadly, this is the 67th mass shooting in america in 2023. that means there have been more mass shootings then days so far this year. president biden today renewing his call to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. cbs's roxana saberi will start us off tonight from the campus in east lansing. good evening, roxana. >> reporter: good evening, nor. this is the academic building where police say the first shooting was reported. student here tell us when they heard a gunman was on campus, they fled or barricaded themselves in their dorms. one told me he called his family

he thought it could be the last time he spoke to them. >> we've got multiple victims at this time. >> reporter: police say the first dispatch calls came out 8:18 p.m. after a gunman open fired inside berkey hall monday. >> all we have so far as there is a shooter in a hallway. >> reporter: inside, officers found two msu students dead and several wounded. the gunman then went to the nearby student union, where he killed another student. >> i am filled with rage that we have to have another press conference to talk about our children being killed in their schools. >> did you ever think this could be the last time i am speaking to my family? >> it crossed my mind, yeah. >> reporter: freshman ryan callahan filled in the library with his girlfriend. >> this happen so much at all over the place, could happen at any time, anywhere, and i kind of just have to live knowing that. >> reporter: authorities identify the shooter is 43-year-old anthony mcrae.

they say he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound and that he had no known affiliation with the school. >> i know everybody wants to know what the motive is. we don't have an answer right now. >> reporter: this shooting comes nearly five years to the day since 17 students and staff were killed in parkland, florida. the number of children in k-12 experiencing a school shooting since 1999 has surged from 187,000 in 2018 to more than 338,000 now. among theo aediatrn. soore brian fraser president of his fraternity. and junior alexandria verner, a talented athlete whose positivity changed lives. >> her smile was massive. her heart was huge. her kindness and compassion were second-to-none. and, you know, to have lost that is tragic.

the silver lining to it is we had 20 years of that from a tremendous young lady. >> reporter: some students here have survived other school shootings, including one in oxford, michigan, just 15 months ago, and the one at sandy hook elementary back in 2012. the classes here are canceled until monday. norah? >> norah: oh, roxana. such a community in pain. thank you. back here in washington, there is breaking news tonight on that chinese spy balloon. "cbs news" has just learned that u.s. intelligence watched the high-flying airship as it lifted off near china's south coast. that means the u.s. military had been tracking it for nearly a week before it entered u.s. airspace, longer than originally known. cbs's nancy cordis is at the white house, so nancy, they were watching this from the beginning? >> reporter: they were, norah, and what they saw was this balloon heading east from china towards guam haw b

it sharp northwardtu, a beelio. they also revealed today the three subsequent objects they shot down probably were not involved in spying. the three objects shot down this weekend may have been harmless research balloons. that is now a leading theory for the intelligence community. >> there is strong consideration that these objects are indeed by nine. >> reporter: they won't know for sure until they find the debris. >> difficult. >> reporter: the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff described the challenge. one object came down in the arctic circle, where it's minus 40 degrees. the second came down in a hard-to-reach part of the canadian rockies. and the third plunged into lake huron, a couple hundred feet deep. >> we will get them eventually, but it is going to take time to recover those. >> reporter: he defended the decision to scramble fighter jets to shoot them down and acknowledged that the first missile fired over lake huron missed its target. >> first shot missed.

second shot hit. >> reporter: new cockpit audio reveals even the pilots were perplexed by what they saw. >> i can see lines coming down below.te pentagon officials have offered intriguing descriptions of the objects. one looked like a metallic drum. another was cylindrical and carried a tethered payload. another was octagonal in shape with strings attached. >> what are these things? who sent them here? and what are they doing here? >> reporter: g.o.p. senators argued to bathe the public deserves more answers from the commander in chief, who ordered the objects shot down. >> my phone ringing off the wall and we have a president of united states not saying anything. >> reporter: we asked white house officials of the president has any plans to make public comments about these objects, and all they would say is he continues to be briefed and takes the situation very seriously. they did say today that they can rule out the possibility that

any of these objects were connected to the u.s. government. they were able to do that after connecting with the faa. norah? >> norah: so many new details. nancy cordes, thank you. donald trump now has his first challenger in the 2024 republican race for president, and it is a woman who once called him a great president. nikki haley, the former south carolina governor and united nations ambassador, made it officials mning with a twitter video saying the washington establishment has failed us. here is cbs's robert costa. >> reporter: former u.n. ambassador nikki haley's jump into the presidential race today makes her the first official arrival to challenge donald trump. >> i'm nikki haley, and i'm running for president. >> reporter: and in a three and a half minute video announcement signaled she is ready for a political brawl. >> you should know this about me. i don't put up with bullies. and when you kick back, it hurts them more if you are wearing heels. >> reporter: the 51-year-old former south carolina governor touted her background as the

daughter of indian immigrants and play of her diplomatic work as u.n. ambassador in the trump administration. but haley's decision is a flip from her previous claim that she wouldn't run against the man she served for two years. >> i would not run if president trump ran. >> reporter: haley called for a new generation of leadership and noted republicans have lost the popular vote in 7 of 8 elections. trump lost it twice. a trump super pac spokesperson shot back, calling her just another career politician whose only fulfilled commitment is to herself. former presidential contender senator marco rubio said the attacks from trump will only increase. >> running for president is hard. running against donald trump is really hard. >> reporter: be 25 enters a fluid and soon-to-be growing field, and thet poll s hac an hill climb meanwhile, sources close to former vice president mike pence, a possible 2024 2024 rival skiles cbs news he will

fight the subpoena issued to him by the justice department special counsel investigating january 6th, setting up a legal showdown as the republican presidential race heats up. norah? >> norah: it is heating up, robert costa. thank you so much. turning out to the devastating earthquake in turkey and syria, where the death toll today top 41,000. but there are still signs of hope, with this man and woman being rescued alive from underneath the rubble eight days after the catastrophe began. cbs's imtiaz tyab traveled to the rebel-held idlib province in hard-hit syria. >> reporter: these are syria's youngest earthquake survivors. tiny bodies battered and bruised but alive. 5-year-old jinan nearly didn't make it. this video trapped under the rubble with her little brother became a viral symbol of the tragedy in idlib. she can be heard pleading with her rescuers, saying "please,

get me out of here." being treated in the bed next to her. they both may have made it out alive, but their mom, dad, brothers and sisters all died. their aunt. how are you feeling with this terrible situation? >> reporter: "my heart is burning," she says. if idlib is harem city hospital is straining under the weight, so too is the rest of the rebel-health territory. >> the need here is so great, but so little aid has come here to northern syria. and people are desperate. >> reporter: a desperation that is tangled up in the fault lines of syria's decade-long civil war. president bashar al-assad is trying to control all of the supply routes and world leaders don't want to legitimize a regime they sanctioned. a complex situation that stands in the way of helping the seriously injured, like fatima, whose leg had to be operated on.

mohammed is her aunt, who tells us kharkiv's father died in the quake. >> mike "we i don't have the heart to tell her she is dead. >> reporter: tonight, the u.n. has reached a deal with president assad to help allow aid into serious disaster zone but for so many syrians, it is far too little, far too late. norah? >> norah: imtiaz tyab, thank you. the other big story tonight in ohio. growing concern about the toxic followed after that train crashed earlier this month. residence in the area are complaining of sore throats and headaches after chemicals were released during a controlled burn of the derailed train cars. officials are adamant there is no threat to human life, but ohio's natural resources department revealed an estimated 3500 fish were killed. officials continue to test the air, water, amsoil, nearly two weeks after the derailment.

turning now to the economy, after tariq was straight months of decline, consumer prices rose more than expected in january. inflation jumped to an annual rate of 6.4%. one of the key reasons inflation remains stubbornly high as the cost of auto insurance. it is up nearly 15% over the last year. manuel bojorquez.rom cbs's >> reporter: juan maroso says the cost of insuring his tesla in miami gave him a whole >> $2,400 for six months, went up to $4,000. >> reporter: up nearly 70% jump. >> it is one more thing to add to the list come honestly, but it hurts, it definitely hurts. >> reporter: a new report by bankrate.com found nationwide premiums have risen more than $240 on average, topping $2,000 a year. florida drivers saw the biggest jump come up nearly twice that amount, to almost $3200 a year.

bank rate insurance editor cate deventer. >> there is a lot of residence in florida and the population is growing. we also see a lot of tourists, which then of course add to the busy roadways and that makes it even more likely that an accident is going to happen. >> reporter: high costs for repair parts, labor, and medical care are driving insurance rates up across the board. >> good morning, great florida, how may i help you? >> reporter: customers are calling agencies like great florida for cheaper policies. anakarina callejas is an agent here. >> sometimes i get lucky and we will be able to find something. and sometimes we don't. >> reporter: she was able to find juan maroso a policy that is $800 below the $4,000 he was quoted. but, she says, rates likely will continue to climb. you think it will get worse before it gets better? >> 100%. >> reporter: really? >> i think we are not going to see positive changes, may be for like a year or two. >> reporter: you mean rates going down? >> right. >> reporter: so, what can drivers do?

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>> reporter: ukrainian military vehicles charge down a russian-health territory north of bakhmut. ukraine says russia's military has been bombarding positions all across the front line, and here was no exception. ukrainian soldiers told us to be quick and spread out. the sound of explosions has been nonstop, both outgoing and incoming. this is the last ukrainian-held village before the russian front line, about 3 miles in that direction. they are even jumping into our trenches, trying to take them over. ostap told us we jump into their trenches, they jump into ours. trench warfare, close enough, we were told, to throw grenades at each other. russian troops have been inching forward, but at a tremendous cost. in bakhmut, the ukrainian military has banned civilians and aid agencies from entering, indicating it may be about to

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be together. that >> judge judy: the defendant was your handyman for a while. vandalized your property. >> announcer: a claim against him affected his girlfriend. >> she was a tenant there. >> judge judy: and you developed a relationship with her. well, it was a different kind of handyman. [ laughter ] >> announcer: then they were both out. >> judge judy: did you get a restraining order against him? >> yes, i did. >> against me too. there's so much more to this story. >> judge judy: it's only a half-hour program. >> announcer: "judge judy." you are about to enter the courtroom of you are about to enter the courtroom of judge judith sheindlin. captions paid for by cbs television distribution julia fahrer is suing her former handyman, michael tabaranza, for property damage, vandalism, and lock-changing fees. >> byrd: order! all rise! your honor, this is case number 346 on the calendar in the matter of fahrer vs. tabaranza.

>> judge judy: thank you. >> byrd: you're welcome, judge. parties have been sworn in. you may be seated. folks, have a seat. >> judge judy: ms. fahrer, the defendant worked for you as a handyman at some point. you have rental properties. >> yes. we rent rooms. >> judge judy: what? >> we rent rooms. >> judge judy: you rent rooms in what kind of property? >> in a single-family dwelling. >> judge judy: how many rooms do you rent? >> we have six rooms that we rent. >> judge judy: six different bedrooms? >> mm-hmm. >> judge judy: are they all bedrooms? >> yes. >> judge judy: do you also live there? >> yes. >> judge judy: so the house is a seven-bedroom house? >> yes, and we live upstairs. >> judge judy: you live upstairs with whom? >> my husband. >> judge judy: and there are six other bedrooms all on one level? >> yes, downstairs. >> judge judy: downstairs. and, mr. tabaranza, you didn't live in that house when you were hired to be the handyman. >> no, i did not. >> judge judy: but your witness, i assume, did live in the house. >> she was a tenant there. >> judge judy: and you developed a relationship with her that was a different kind of handyman. [ laughter ] >> yes. >> judge judy: perfect. and when did she move in?